Whoo? - Softcover

Hoyt, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846174562 ISBN 13: 9781846174568

Publisher: Linford Mystery, 2006

Synopsis

When John Denson undertakes to clear a Washington State client of a marijuana charge, he finds himself in spotted owl country. He discovers that the tiny bird is up against the logging industry. A spotted owl is found murdered, and Denson's partner, Willie Prettybird, wants him to investigate. But then Jenny MacIvar of the Fish and Wildlife Service is murdered; a simple marijuana case turns into a hunt for a killer, and Denson may be the next victim.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Hoyt, a graduate of the University of Oregon, is a former fellow of the Washington Journalism Center and holds a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Hawaii. He served as U.S. army counterintelligence agent, wrote for daily newspapers in Honolulu, and was a stringer for Newsweek magazine. He taught journalism at the University of Maryland and at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Or.

Hoyt is the author of the John Denson mysteries, the James Burlane thrillers and numerous other novels of adventure, espionage and suspense including two under the pseudonym of Nicholas van Pelt. In researching and writing in more than two dozen countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, he has ridden trains across the Soviet Union and riverboats down the Amazon. He now lives in the Philippines.

From Kirkus Reviews:

As in the earlier mysteries featuring Seattle shamus John Denson (Fish Story, etc.), the questions here are far from ordinary. To wit: Why would somebody plant 50 marijuana plants on luckless clients Terry and Mary Ellen Harkenrider? Who wrung the neck of a spotted owl representing a pitched battle between environmentalists trying to protect same and loggers determined to revitalize the local economy? Why did government inspector Jenny MacIver and lumber baron Bosley Ellin's troops get such different counts of spotted owls in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest that Ellin sued the Fish and Wildlife Service? Why does Jenny have such glowing words for her photographer beau Adonis Northlake the morning after she's hopped into Denson's bed? And--finally, an ordinary question--who shot Jenny to death before she could start her recount? Though Denson can't help figuring Adonis for her killer, it takes the wacko skills of Indian sidekick Willie Prettybird and his cohorts--along with their theft of the owl's corpse--to knit the two cases together. Waggish and flip rather than funny--though Hoyt, with a fine sense of balance, manages to find knaves and fools on both sides of the environmental debate. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Linford Mystery
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846174562
• ISBN 13: 9781846174568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384